Word: avoiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Franco's officials have arrested perhaps two hundred of the miners themselves, but in general have tried to avoid force. The tough Guardia Civil is noticeably absent; in the mining areas, the grey-uniformed civilian security police are in charge-and as one Spaniard put it, they do not have the "smell" of the tough old order. Moving gently on the money question, the government at week's end granted 5% to 10% pay boosts to almost half the nation's miners...
...academic womb is apparently the least of them. Beating the draft is no prime mover, either-although one Princeton cynic did remark last week, "I'm doing graduate work at my fiancée's school next year so I can marry her this summer and avoid the draft." But far more pervasive is the idea that the B.A. is neither sufficient as a guarantee of a good job-big-company recruiters increasingly demand M.A.s-nor as a certificate of intellectual satisfaction...
...basis of these statistics, the report says: "The Committee cannot escape, nor does it wish to avoid, the conclusion that Harvard should continue to admit an increasing proportion of its freshmen from among qualified graduates of public schools. To ignore or seek to minimize the pool of talent which such applicants represent would be to fly in the face of all our current performance studies...
...anxious to avoid such a fate, the third suspect meekly surrendered-to New York Daily News Photographer Gary Kagan (who knew the suspect's family...
Died. Henry Myron Blackmer, 92, elusive Teapot Dome swindler, an oil-rich dandy nicknamed ''Darling of the Gods" for his lavish sprees during the West's reckless frontier era; in Geneva, Switzerland. Blackmer fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Harding Administration oil scandal and fought off all U.S. extradition efforts, but after 25 years in self-exile, by then a half-blind octogenarian without a country, he paid up $4,000,000 in back taxes, returned to face federal trial, where he was fined another $20,000 for income-tax evasion and then...